Sudan’s Recurring Nightmare

Frontpagemag.com ^ | 11-15-11 | Faith J. H. McDonnell

[bayouranger]

Sudan is a kind of diabolical Groundhog Day. In the film by that name, Phil Connors (Bill Murray) re-lives the same day over and over again until he learns the lessons needed to change his life and save the lives of others. In Sudan today, people of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State are re-living the horrific nightmare from which they thought they had finally awakened after the signing of Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. But in this case, it is the United States government that has failed to learn the lessons needed to change conditions and save the lives of others.

Along with the citizens of what is now the new nation of the Republic of South Sudan, the people of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State were for decades mercilessly persecuted and slaughtered by their own government. Starvation and enslavement were used as weapons of war along with ground combat and aerial bombardment. The hallmark of Khartoum’s multiple declarations of jihad against its own people is the deliberate targeting of civilians and particularly of Christians. In the case of Blue Nile State, one Sudanese military commander, Taib Musba, was responsible for the killing of 15,000 Uduk Christians in the mid 1980’s. Some he killed personally by driving three-inch-long nails into the tops of their heads. Others were crushed by a 50 ton Soviet-made tank.

[bayouranger]

The time for posting is near an end with me.

Filthy koranimals must pay for their sins against Our Father.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bayouranger. Disturbing image alert.

[SamAdams76]

There was a time around 1985 where it seemed like every other song on the radio was a Phil Collins song.

[SunkenCiv]

I don't care anymore. /rimshot /2nd rimshot for the 1st rimshot, because of the drumming reference